Visible and Invisible Whiteness

Alice Mikal Craven is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of Film Studies at The American University of Paris, France. In addition to publications on selected authors and filmmakers featured in this volume, she is co-editor of Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (Palgrave 2011) and Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary (2014), which received a 2015 Outstanding Academic Title award from Choice magazine. She has been invited to give public interventions in Paris on films such as Selma and Dear White People, and on the Black American expatriate community’s perspective on the Franco-Algerian war.

• 1. Looking at American White Supremacy “Through a Glass Darkly”: Baldwin’s Critique of Birth of a Nation.- 2. “But Now I See”: James Agee on Birth of a Nation.- 3. Contending Visions: Imitation of Life According to John M. Stahl and Douglas Sirk.- 4. Forsaking Hollywood: Samuel Fuller’s “art house” White Dog.- 5. A Western by Any Other Name: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Whity.- 6. Cream Rises to the Top: Jean Renoir and William Faulkner’s The Southerner.- 7. Supremacy in Black Face: the Boris Vian-Michel Gast Controversy.- 8. Rachid Bouchareb’s Comparative Take on Supremacy.- 9. A Post-Racial Imaginary and the Structures of Cinema.